in reply to Re^2: Global variable unexpectedly modified when passed by reference
in thread Global variable unexpectedly modified when passed by reference

Sorry, this makes no sense. If the sub returns a reference to a hash, just dereference it and pass the hash. You can easily convert between scalar and reference. I suggest looking at this.

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